Alright, I see people flying in the air shooting beams from their hands, but it's all atoms and tricks!
Series in more sentences:
A studious orphan from a prestige, but bankrupt family slowly finds himself surrounded by demons, who argue he's the descendant of King Solomon from the Bible with the power to appoint one of them as the new leader of Hell.
His mind only accepts logic based in realism, though, and he rejects all supernatural occurrences that stare him in the face.
It always hurts to sit through a series that's nothing but missed potential and loose ends. It had alot to offer, but couldn't explain the basics of the basics. Like, what exactly was the relationship between Solomon and the devil, Dantalion? Why did the guy like him so much? What exactly was his purpose as his servant, was he just bringing the guy tea every day? It all seemed pretty gay, yet the flashback scenes didn't give a lengthy and natural look into their past interactions and the relationship Dantalion has with his present day "reincarnation" is non-existent.
Said subject, William, goes through absolutely no character development. He stays his atheistic, angry self, making the last few minutes of the final episode pretty meaningless. Why is he feeling gloomy over the disappearance of characters he hardly interacted with, or always scolded into oblivion? He never showed gratitude for the many times his ass was saved or even said thank you to Dantalion for paying his school fees. It's the one concern the character has all throughout the series and he won't even accept the gift with a smile or take the offer a second time. William is all about using people to get a leg up, so why didn't he do it here?
No noticeable friendships were established between him and the other demons, and the one who's supposedly the most important in the story, Dantalion, got the least screen time out of everyone. Usually he was hanging out with the school's jocks. Those guys were his friends, not William.
Characters I couldn't care less about kept getting more dialogue and appearances; one episode even stars a woman never seen before to tell this hasty love story with another undercover demon character attending William's school. I don't care about this, damnit Makai Ouji, and neither do you when looking at the fact this man hardly makes an appearance worth mentioning after all that. The woman is never seen or mentioned again, either.
This anime made me feel so unfulfilled.
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